Indian origin Gurtej Sandhu is the world’s 7th most prolific inventor, holding over 1,325 patents, which surpasses the number held by Thomas Edison

At a convocation ceremony for Panjab University in March 2025, President of India Droupadi Murmu presented Dr. Gurtej Sandhu with the Vigyan Ratna award. He received the honor for his significant contributions to the field of science.

NEW YORK (TIP): Gurtej Sandhu is Principal Fellow and Vice President at Micron Technology. In his current role, he is responsible for Micron’s end-to-end (Si-to-Package) R&D technology roadmaps. The scope includes driving cross-functional alignment across various departments and business units to proactively identify technology gaps and managing the engineering organization to resource and execute on developing innovative technology solutions for future memory scaling. Dr. Sandhu’s responsibilities include driving AI/ML based solutions for chip development, leading several internal project teams worldwide and managing interactions with research consortia around the world. At Micron, Dr. Sandhu has held several engineering and management roles. He has been actively involved with a broad range of process technologies for IC processing and has pioneered several process technologies currently employed in mainstream semiconductor chip manufacturing. Dr. Sandhu received a degree in electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and a Ph.D. in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He holds over 1,400 U.S. patents and is recognized as one of the top inventors in the world. Dr. Sandhu is a Fellow of IEEE. In 2018, he received the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for outstanding contributions to silicon CMOS process technology that enables DRAM and NAND memory chip scaling.
Reference links: Bio: https://www.micron.com/about/our-company/leadership/gurtej-sandhu
Andy Grove Award: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/tfas/grove.html

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